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It was not created with touring in mind, and it appears to have been reworked to be presented in repertory from 1912. <i>Firebird</i> was first performed in London on 18 June 1912 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. It was redesigned by Natalia Goncharova and first presented at the Lyceum Theatre, London on 25 November 1926. <i>Firebird</i> was important as the first creation for Diaghilev’s company in which all parts – narrative, music, designs and choreography – were new and it tapped into the audiences’ fascination with traditional ‘old Russia’. \r\n\r\nCostumes for <i>The Firebird</i> can be problematic with a lack of iconographic resources for the production by Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The 1910 production was designed by Alexandr Golovin to which Léon Bakst added costumes for some of the principal dancers (and even these changed over time). In 1926, when the production was redesigned by Goncharova, she seems to have reworked some of the costumes as well as designing new ones. When <i>The Firebird</i> passed to de Basil's Ballet Russe parallel productions were presented in Australia an America apparently using even more of a mixture of costumes and sets from both stagings. While costumes for leading characters may be identified those for what the 1926 programme described as the 'motley horde of fantastic creatures, the bizarre slaves and transformed captives' of Kostchei and those at the coronation are more challenging.\r\n\n","physicalDescription":"Kaftan with long sleeves in beige figured linen with overall stylized flower and fruit design. 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